Russia launched new strikes in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv that hit high-rise apartment buildings, leaving at least 21 wounded in a second consecutive nighttime attack, authorities said. The bombs fell Saturday night on the district of Shevchenkivsky,

The injured include one 8-year-old child and two 17-year-olds, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said. Six of the wounded have been hospitalized and 60 people have been evacuated from the high-rise.

The bombs fell Saturday night in Kharkiv, the second-largest Ukrainian city, damaging 18 buildings north of its center, the city council said.

Russia launched new strikes in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv that hit high-rise apartment buildings, leaving at least 21 wounded in a second consecutive nighttime attack, authorities said.

Russian forces struck a multi-storey apartment building in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, on Saturday evening, wounding 21 people and prompting an evacuation of some of its residents, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said.

A Russian late-night strike on a residential neighbourhood of the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv wounded 21 people, Kyiv said Sunday.The strike hit late on Saturday, hours after Russian attacks killed five people -- including two children -- in central Ukraine.

The attack damaged civilian infrastructure and private homes. The MIA reported that 13 people were injured in the Russian attack, including three minors. Emergency services put out a car fire and extinguished burning dry grass at two different locations.